reformism

Examples

• All

• The principles of reformism focus on addressing social issues through incremental adjustments rather than abrupt transformations.

• Reformism aims to improve family, neighborhood, and schools rather than the political or economic structure.

  Academic text (1991)

• The rigidity of the past has been replaced by a sense of pragmatism, minimalism, and reformism.

  Academic text (1995)

• Meanwhile, in the urban areas, the spurt of economic growth and industrialization of the 1960s had given rise to trade union activity, and that, plus the cautious reformism of the Alliance for Progress, had created some space for political parties.

  Academic text (1991)

• A decade later, having renounced his Marxism, he made his peace with Roosevelt's liberal reformism and accepted the liberal dichotomy between politics and economics.

  Academic text (1995)

• The secretary of state's words indicate that the relevance of the pope's reformism for the United States lay in its effects on the peninsula's economic prosperity and potential for the absorption of American exports.

  Academic text (2001)

• Historians often emphasize the traditional character of Brandeis's reformism, citing his idealization of small-producer economies and decentralized government.

  Academic text (2013)

• While superficially a return to traditional concern for undergraduate education, the FYE is really another example of reacting to the wreckage of progressive reformism by calling for a redoubling of progressive reform.

  Academic text (1997)

• Many activists believe reformism is essential for making sustainable improvements within the political system.

Synonyms

I

incrementalism

vsreformism

3 7.5

A way of improving things by small changes over time

focuses on gradual political change as a belief avoiding sudden revolutionary shifts

G

gradualism

vsreformism

1 7.5

Belief that change happens slowly and steadily over time

applies this belief specifically to political and social change as an active strategy

Antonyms

R

revolution

810 4.1

A sudden large change in a country's government or society, often when people rise against leaders

How Reformist

revolutionary

143 4.9

radicalism

14 8.1

reformism

1 7.8

conservatism

83 4.9

reactionary

8 8.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology